Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:56:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS TV FM 7135 (Philips 7135) card supported by bktr(4)? Message-ID: <20050123172637.S644@coyote.ry.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050123202618.GC241@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20050122005608.H807@coyote.ry.ca> <20050123202618.GC241@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote to Ryan Thompson on Mon, Jan 24th at 07:26 +1100: > On Sat, 2005-Jan-22 13:43:10 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: > >> I'm toying with a known-good ASUS TV FM 7135 card, which is using the >> Philips 7135 chipset (according to their web site, and the stamped chip >> on the board). Just for kicks, I've added the following to my kernel: > ... >> Does anyone know how easily this card could be supported? > > I have a Tevion tuner using the same chipset. > > The bad news is that programming details do not appear to be available > from Philips and there's no official FreeBSD support. AFAIK, the > chips are nothing like the Brooktree chips. Yep, I think that's safe to say now. > The good news is that there an unofficial driver at > http://download.purpe.com/ that works (for me) on 5.3. There's also > Linux support (which may be useful for ideas). Thank you! The driver works better than the Windows one. :-) At least, the configuration makes more sense. The author (Rohit Jalan) will also receive my thanks. :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America
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